On 11/20/2015 06:04 AM, Ben Greenfield via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
2) is retro tech practical or nostalgic?
Nostalgic
My interest is purely practical. If you don’t know why things are done a certain way one tends to re-invent the wheel.
My interest is in both. For me it goes far (really far) beyond nostalgia...first, it's respect for how we came to be where we are today. These amazing iOS and Android devices we're so attached to didn't just leap into existence in a vacuum; their development was a process that really began in, very roughly, the 1940s. Further, as a designer, knowing where we came from better prepares me to help guide where we're going. My favorite quote: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana, 1906 -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA